Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes." Here are the hard numbers:

An illustrated guide to resisting "AI is inevitable" in education buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustr...

Thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel‑writing machines’ theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Library on Quebec-Vermont border gets new entrance after U.S. limited access for Canadians www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

"Put simply, 'child care or war' is a false choice. The U.S. has the money to pay for child care, even if we are also funding a costly, unpopular and arguably unconstitutional war. That money is just stuck in the wrong hands." My latest for @ms.now : www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Luanne James is an American hero. Anyone know where we can send donations to support her? www.wsmv.com/2026/04/01/r...

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy

I love this for them.

“It is not that AI is taking our jobs per se, but that AI is being prioritized over many of our jobs.”

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

A court ordered Trump’s Department of Education to roll back its anti-DEI efforts. Why haven’t universities reversed course? prismreports.org/2026/03/19/d...

We’re delighted to announce our international keynote for the upcoming national event Open Education: Supporting Policy and Practice. @robinderosa.net (Executive Director, Open Education Network) will deliver a keynote, “Opening the Future: Equity, Sustainability, and Promise in Higher Education”

WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement. The encyclopedia company's lawsuit also said ChatGPT cannibalizes traffic to the Britannica and Merriam-Webster websites. www.engadget.com/ai/encyclope...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

In a lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics against RFK Jr., a federal court ruled that the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee can't move forward under changes he imposed and reversed every action the committee took since summer 2025. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-win-for-...

This also describes cuts inside public universities. Replace “important income to support their lives” with “the Humanities” & “reduce the federal deficit” with “eliminate our budget deficit.” The free market causes problems that public goods are asked to correct through both service & elimination.

Past Makes Perfect: A Mini Handbook for Student Historians Much has been written about the skills history students need to be successful in their academic programs. This #OER aims to put some of the most important concepts in easy bite sized formats. express.excelsior.edu/historyhandb...

Accessible Appalachia: An Open-Access Introduction to Appalachian Studies This #OER textbook features coverage of Appalachian artistic, cultural, historical, natural, and social development. manifold.open.umn.edu/projects/acc...

New #OER aimed at enabling all learners to build strong library research skills. qut.pressbooks.pub/airs/

Portland State declares financial crisis, reveals plan to cut or reduce 19 departments www.opb.org/article/2026...

Listen to "The Open Education Network with Robin DeRosa and David Ernst" by voicEd Radio via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/the-... @robinderosa.net #OENCommunity #OpenEducation

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

My employer Canterbury Shaker Village lost a small NEH grant. I wrote it. I used words such as "equality" and "citizenship." The same words were used in CHATGPT to cancel grants. The same words are in the nation's founding documents.

Millions of Students Attend Schools Near Toxic Sites, a New Study Shows: Exposure to pollutants affects students’ health and learning www.edweek.org/leadership/m...

"Through the framework of vocational awe, I will explore how an expanded workload created by the implementation of generative AI can lead those in higher education to burnout." AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries by Greyson Pasiak scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/04/g...

Some happy news, friends!

What a fantastic, vulnerable, important piece by @liznorell.bsky.social. I cant recommend this enough. For autistic folks, sure, but also for anyone who works with human beings. open.substack.com/pub/engagedl...

In surprise reversal, Republican lawmaker moves to ban open carry on Utah college campuses www.sltrib.com/news/educati... Perhaps helpful to people watching #NHPolitics right now.

"History shows that wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now,

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o... (gift link) #ai #higherEd

Is this satire? Is this real? Is this a colossal fucking JOKE? Have we truly entered an educational era where we're told we need to pick between a $250 commercial textbook and a cheap AI-generated slopfest? futurism.com/artificial-i... #NotOpenPedagogy #OER #DoNotDoThis #NotOER #AI #PedagogicalNope

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Together, we are America. Well done, Bad Bunny.

What a moment.

If you needed any more proof that joy is a powerful form of resistance, this was it.

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Mike Tyson in a MAHA ad against processed foods. In 1992 Mike Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old. Eat more apples though!

This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.

As a former Bostonian and lifelong New Englander: Go Seahawks! Ok, someone ping me when it’s time for #BadBunny.

Woohoo! Comic syllabus for my superhero class is live and students were geeked! It was a mammoth effort to make it but so worth it to be able to give to them! Pleased & excited for the term! And you can have your own too - all on my site for printing, sharing! 1/? spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...